That's interesting, I was thinking more of the situation where you may have
a task bar app that sits on a Windows 2000 machine and could be running for
weeks at a time (I think I rebooted a couple of weeks ago :), so when a new
version is installed, the already-running version can tell the user.
Phil.
>
> > You could even have the executables themselves check the ini file
> > and give a
> > message such as "a newer version of this program is available,
> > please close
> > down this application and restart it to run the latest version".
>
> Like in an idle-timer? Yes, I suppose you could do that. Still updates
would
> have to be pretty damn frequent for that to buy your users much.
>
> Mind you, our _testers_ might appreciate it in-house so they know to
recheck
> their pending defects. Hrmm.. I might ask them about that. Thanks for the
> suggestion!
>
> TTFN,
> Paul.
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